bought two 10ozt OPM bars and was a little skeptical on legitimacy, tested on a scale, both weighed in about 10 +/- .01 and me just to be 105% sure they were legit, I did your ice test which both passed and completely blew my mind on a whole scientific level. Thanks for the video
Similar story goes with my 140 year old victorian house. Original owner lived here many years and was quite wealthy. Never put money in the bank. Never married. Dropped dead in the dining room. Legend is he had a lot of gold or silver hidden on the property. I detected the front lawn and side lawn so far. Just a couple old coins, a skeleton key, and a girl's size gold ring. Next spring I continue the search. Thx for the tips Gary.
Thank you for the great video! I have been purchasing silver bars and rounds for years, and have often wondered if there was a quick test for authenticity. I really enjoy your videos, and the honesty, and professional content of your channel. Keep up the good work.
Two Toes I tested several "suspect" bars. All passed! I have shared this video with several silver collectors, and the owner of my local coin shop. All were impressed. Thanks again!
Thank you I had a piece of silver when I was a kid I had a silver spoon I took a hammer and just flattened it all out I've always wondered if it was real silver I found out today that it was thanks to you God bless Merry Christmas
Cool video, I bought a property several years ago and it was rumored the old guy buried coins on the property I never thought much about it I was just fixing it up my son bought a cheep metal detector we we found a bucket of silver half dollars buried in the greenhouse 1135 of them ranging from 1895 to 1964 so there is truth to some rumors
Gary, I had the time to compile a list of the absolute best videos of 2017 with my subscribers and friends in the hobby. You won, hands down, for the 2017 Best Adventure Video. It was the helicopter assault of the deep river nugget hole using the hooka rig. Best vid out there by far. The finds were a bust unfortunately, but it was the most exciting adventure of the year! Great job! Looking forward to 2018!
Thank you very much! I have been working on another one, it will be on a very remote creek that has a history of large nuggets. I have every thing in place, now I have to wait until July when the water has dropped enough to dive the creek. Hopefully this one will have more gold.
That was a very cool story. Loved that you were able to find the pot of silver at the end of the mystery! Also I learned something today so thank you for that.
I didn't know about the ice test. Makes sense. When I used to repair silver, I'd have to heat the whole piece to solder a shank. Silver is expensive to repair as the jeweler has to remove all the stones first to heat the piece. Karat gold was much easier, I would only hit the area I wanted to solder with the torch. Wouldn't have to remove any stones.
Gary, take that rare earth magnet and drop it through a piece of copper pipe and notice how slowly it falls, you can actually see a visual distortion that is created by the 2 magnetic fields that are being created. This is basically, or is part of Lens's Law and it is what makes an electric motor run. When a magnetic field is introduced into a conductor a magnetic field and a current is created. in the conductor. Thats the basics of it anyways, I'm sure there is someone out there who can critique my explanation. Try the copper pipe though, its fun
Don't know why, but it's still a lot of fun. I thought it got stuck in the pipe for a minute, just about the time I way going to check, it dropped out the bottom. I got a shorter piece of pipe, about 3 feet long and watched it go down, it kind of cork screws slowly down the pipe. Too cool, Thanks - Gary
Wow what a cool story! I should hire you to look for this boot of gold that is hidden over here apparently.. That ice thing is wild its so weird! Also congrats on your 8,000 subs! Take care Gary.
Two Toes Hah well if you have time this has a bit of information on it. Its an interesting story anyhow, and its where I go when detecting for gold. admin.itsmysite.com/cgi-bin/itsmy/itsmy.exe?trnsid=0&previewmode=1&extval=file.dat&page=41&sessid=112101110116105099116111110A108097119115111110&sesstm=049057058048056058051053032050048049050
Over the years I have found a dozen or so " treasures" most were small amounts of coins people tucked away. I did find a large leather bag full of coins ( about the size a football ) in the wall of a old cellar. Thought I was rich, but they were all Chinese coins! The one thing that stands out in the treasure story is it was buried 18 inches deep. People don't bury treasure for some one to find later. Most of the time, it is located so they can get to it easily, it was their bank. They want to get in and out quick. It would take a lot of time and work to dig that deep. When looking for treasure, the method I use is where would I put it. The best thing about treasure stories, it gives you a reason to go out and look, you might not find it, but you will probably find something while looking. You need to do a video on the search for the treasure - it would be fun.
Two Toes Wow thats incredible! I knew you have quite the expierence prospecting, but your a treasure finder too! Finding coins in a bag or cache would be exiting any way I looked at it. You are totally right about how deep and why people would burry things. Why would you burry something invaluable, or important where you risk not finding it again? If I hid that boot, I would put it in a place easy enough for me to get to but also in an area where a detector would have trouble (like in a pile of junk metals). But back when that boot was hidden, they were not thinking of detectors! But yes searching for treasures is always fun and really can lead you to new discoveries along the way. I wrote down this idea for a video upload for the near-ish future! It would be fun to make for sure :D. Thanks again Gary!
Heheh that would of been wack if one of those were fake I would of liked to see your reaction! Have a great one dude! Great stuff Jeff showed you. I want to buy one now just to try it.
Cheers man! Av just done the magnet test on my very old funny shaped Chinese 5oz silver bar and the magnet was moving slowly as oot!Just wish I knew what the writing says!!
Thanks for sharing. The test you did is cool, I'll have to give it a try. I bought a couple of counterfeit bars a few years back on eBay and ever since then ebay hasn't gotten any of my business and I now deal strictly with my local coin dealer. GL&HH
Dang, 5 years ago, not sure if this account is still active, but I am curious what happened? Most fake silver is plated, so I wanna know how well the ice test works?
i been buying silver bars from JM bulion... are they trustworthy ? how should i test my bars? and whats the best way to store the silver? should it be sealed air tight ?
Great Info Gary, If you don't mind me asking.you live close to Sierra Nevada public lands don't you..if so i need to talk to you personally ...unfortunately i'm in Oklahoma where there is NO Gold..lol
Gary, is there no way to buy that 2" Proline Gold dredge / High Banker other than coming to Biggs, every place I look it says no shipping what is up,i want to buy one but I am in Sturgis S Dakota,pretty far trip to Biggs .
Shipping cost are so high and so many restrictions, it would have to go by truck. The hassel is to time comsumming, and the cost is high because they charge for the area it takes up, even tho it has little weight. To save on shipping, I used to drive to the manafucture and load my truck and trailer, it was a 14 hour round trip. I have made 2 trips to Sturgis on my bike, it is a long trip!.
4:10 1,500 ounces found split by 1/2 = 750 ounces kept. If silver is worth $17 per ounce x 750 ounces = $12,750. Is this correct? If so, great return for you time. How much time/expenses did it take to find it?
If I remember, I got about $9000. for the silver back then. All I had invested was a couple of days time and a tank of diesel. But I can still remember the excitement of finding it.
Googled Diametic, Diametric, quick look, couldn't find. I think the drag of the magnet is generating current. Google, Drop a magnet through copper pipe, even though magnet doesn't stick to the pipe, you can see the resistance or slowing down as it falls through. Another video shows dropping a magnet through a coil of wire with an LED attached, it briefly lights as Magnet falls through. Motors use copper(non magnetic), and a Magnet, who should have think it. Like to test,droppi g a magnet through a gold pipe to test. So for I have the Magnet. Intetesting.
I found the ice test the most inaccurate. 2oz silver vs bench top, no probs but when i did 6 1oz bars, they all melted at differant rates. How do you judge a puddle of water? They are all the same size. One melted fast, one melted slower than another one, but faster than the bench top, 3 melted even slower, but still faster than the bench top and in the end, the bench top had enough of a puddle to be no noticible differance. I could have speculated and taken an educated guess, but im sticking with the gravity test.
Gary, Bill in in town from England and he is looking for someone to take him out metal detecting for gold, his UA-cam channel is chill bill. He was asking for someone to take him out to do some metal detecting, I don't think you are to far from him. I think you guys will hit it off.
Two Toes thanks for trying, I had no idea you are that for from LA, I live in AZ and I'm closer to LA than you. Long time watcher first time commenting love watching your videos.
I'd drill a hole through it in the center and take the material and melt it and see if there's some sort of test, to confirm what % silver it is,..... that's how I would proof test it. he hole would reveal if their was say aluminum in the center?
He doesn't have a channel. He does not like the fact that some people are stealing, by selling fake silver bars. He made the video so people at least had a fighting chance.
I got the feeling that he thought someone had already found it. He was very happy when I showed him the silver. The best part for me is, every time I dig a target I remember that thrill, because you never know what's down there.
bought two 10ozt OPM bars and was a little skeptical on legitimacy, tested on a scale, both weighed in about 10 +/- .01 and me just to be 105% sure they were legit, I did your ice test which both passed and completely blew my mind on a whole scientific level. Thanks for the video
That ice test was fascinating. Thanks!
Similar story goes with my 140 year old victorian house. Original owner lived here many years and was quite wealthy. Never put money in the bank. Never married. Dropped dead in the dining room. Legend is he had a lot of gold or silver hidden on the property. I detected the front lawn and side lawn so far. Just a couple old coins, a skeleton key, and a girl's size gold ring. Next spring I continue the search. Thx for the tips Gary.
Cool story and being able to split the silver with the new owner is awesome as well.
Very cool story and I learned new things about silver. Wow!
Thank you Garry.Old Engelhard bars are so cool... also silver plated copper bars will pass the super magnet test.
I think they would pass the ice test to. I wonder if there is a weight difference, going to have to check that out.Thanks - Gary
@@TwoToes Did you ever check that out and do a video on it?
Thank you for the great video! I have been purchasing silver bars and rounds for years, and have often wondered if there was a quick test for authenticity. I really enjoy your videos, and the honesty, and professional content of your channel. Keep up the good work.
The test is a lot of fun, give it a try. Thanks - Gary
Two Toes I tested several "suspect" bars. All passed! I have shared this video with several silver collectors, and the owner of my local coin shop. All were impressed. Thanks again!
Does the ice test show on a silver plated item
Thank you I had a piece of silver when I was a kid I had a silver spoon I took a hammer and just flattened it all out I've always wondered if it was real silver I found out today that it was thanks to you God bless Merry Christmas
Nice video. I use the magnet test, but never heard of the ice test. It was fun to watch that ice melt so fast. Wow
Always learning something new from your videos! Thank you for sharing this, can't wait to give it a try.
Cool video, I bought a property several years ago and it was rumored the old guy buried coins on the property I never thought much about it I was just fixing it up my son bought a cheep metal detector we we found a bucket of silver half dollars buried in the greenhouse 1135 of them ranging from 1895 to 1964 so there is truth to some rumors
It is why they use silver in solar panels. Conducts heat very well
Gary, I had the time to compile a list of the absolute best videos of 2017 with my subscribers and friends in the hobby. You won, hands down, for the 2017 Best Adventure Video. It was the helicopter assault of the deep river nugget hole using the hooka rig. Best vid out there by far. The finds were a bust unfortunately, but it was the most exciting adventure of the year! Great job! Looking forward to 2018!
Thank you very much! I have been working on another one, it will be on a very remote creek that has a history of large nuggets. I have every thing in place, now I have to wait until July when the water has dropped enough to dive the creek. Hopefully this one will have more gold.
@@TwoToes what creek might this be? (:p
Great video, thanks for sharing. A lot of people in the community don’t know these techniques. Thanks
Amazing video learned a lot!
Great videos both of you. Thanks for sharing them.
nice, thanks for posting this. I know there are chemicals you can use to determine gold and silver but this is much easier.
I sell on ebay, and still agree with you on buying from known sources as well as test the silver when you get it.
Great job Gary and David !!!!!
Hey, your still alive!
That was a very cool story. Loved that you were able to find the pot of silver at the end of the mystery! Also I learned something today so thank you for that.
I liked the treasure hunting story even more than the silver testing. Awesome score sir!
Thanks.
I never knew that about sliver (Doing the Ice test)
Awesome story about finding silver....good video...👍👍😀😀✌
Thanks for the info.
Buying a small amount of silver to use as money if our monetary system goes to pot.
Any recommendations?
I had now idea that was great information Gary , thank your nephew David !!!
Will do! Thanks.
Interesting story on the silver and cool test. Have any more stories to share?
Would the ice test work on a 1 kilo silver bar that has been hollowed out?
I didn't know about the ice test. Makes sense. When I used to repair silver, I'd have to heat the whole piece to solder a shank. Silver is expensive to repair as the jeweler has to remove all the stones first to heat the piece. Karat gold was much easier, I would only hit the area I wanted to solder with the torch. Wouldn't have to remove any stones.
This is very helpful! Thanks for the great info!
Very informative, Thanks. Also I would much enjoy any video you might have on finding that buried Silver.
Gary, take that rare earth magnet and drop it through a piece of copper pipe and notice how slowly it falls, you can actually see a visual distortion that is created by the 2 magnetic fields that are being created. This is basically, or is part of Lens's Law and it is what makes an electric motor run. When a magnetic field is introduced into a conductor a magnetic field and a current is created.
in the conductor. Thats the basics of it anyways, I'm sure there is someone out there who can critique my explanation. Try the copper pipe though, its fun
Don't know why, but it's still a lot of fun. I thought it got stuck in the pipe for a minute, just about the time I way going to check, it dropped out the bottom. I got a shorter piece of pipe, about 3 feet long and watched it go down, it kind of cork screws slowly down the pipe. Too cool, Thanks - Gary
Interesting ,I must check my silver now I've seen that , never thought about it before ,thanks.
Wow what a cool story! I should hire you to look for this boot of gold that is hidden over here apparently.. That ice thing is wild its so weird! Also congrats on your 8,000 subs! Take care Gary.
Thanks - ok now lets talk about this boot! LOL Thank you very much.
Two Toes Hah well if you have time this has a bit of information on it. Its an interesting story anyhow, and its where I go when detecting for gold. admin.itsmysite.com/cgi-bin/itsmy/itsmy.exe?trnsid=0&previewmode=1&extval=file.dat&page=41&sessid=112101110116105099116111110A108097119115111110&sesstm=049057058048056058051053032050048049050
Over the years I have found a dozen or so " treasures" most were small amounts of coins people tucked away. I did find a large leather bag full of coins ( about the size a football ) in the wall of a old cellar. Thought I was rich, but they were all Chinese coins! The one thing that stands out in the treasure story is it was buried 18 inches deep. People don't bury treasure for some one to find later. Most of the time, it is located so they can get to it easily, it was their bank. They want to get in and out quick. It would take a lot of time and work to dig that deep. When looking for treasure, the method I use is where would I put it. The best thing about treasure stories, it gives you a reason to go out and look, you might not find it, but you will probably find something while looking. You need to do a video on the search for the treasure - it would be fun.
Two Toes Wow thats incredible! I knew you have quite the expierence prospecting, but your a treasure finder too! Finding coins in a bag or cache would be exiting any way I looked at it. You are totally right about how deep and why people would burry things. Why would you burry something invaluable, or important where you risk not finding it again? If I hid that boot, I would put it in a place easy enough for me to get to but also in an area where a detector would have trouble (like in a pile of junk metals). But back when that boot was hidden, they were not thinking of detectors! But yes searching for treasures is always fun and really can lead you to new discoveries along the way. I wrote down this idea for a video upload for the near-ish future! It would be fun to make for sure :D. Thanks again Gary!
Heheh that would of been wack if one of those were fake I would of liked to see your reaction! Have a great one dude! Great stuff Jeff showed you. I want to buy one now just to try it.
Cheers mate!
You have a wonderful day too.✌️👍🙏
Have a wonderful day and a better tomorrow!
Good info Two Toes, thanks for this video.
Cheers man! Av just done the magnet test on my very old funny shaped Chinese 5oz silver bar and the magnet was moving slowly as oot!Just wish I knew what the writing says!!
Thanks for sharing. The test you did is cool, I'll have to give it a try. I bought a couple of counterfeit bars a few years back on eBay and ever since then ebay hasn't gotten any of my business and I now deal strictly with my local coin dealer. GL&HH
Really? Sorry to hear that. Did you buy the fakes from large coin companies? .
Dang, 5 years ago, not sure if this account is still active, but I am curious what happened? Most fake silver is plated, so I wanna know how well the ice test works?
i been buying silver bars from JM bulion... are they trustworthy ? how should i test my bars? and whats the best way to store the silver? should it be sealed air tight ?
If you buy from JM, SD or Apmex you don't need to test at all. These tests are really only for the people who shop on ebay or go to pawnshops.
Un saludo desde la vieja Europa, España.
Great Info Gary, If you don't mind me asking.you live close to Sierra Nevada public lands don't you..if so i need to talk to you personally ...unfortunately i'm in Oklahoma where there is NO Gold..lol
Gary, is there no way to buy that 2" Proline Gold dredge / High Banker other than coming to Biggs, every place I look it says no shipping what is up,i want to buy one but I am in Sturgis S Dakota,pretty far trip to Biggs .
Shipping cost are so high and so many restrictions, it would have to go by truck. The hassel is to time comsumming, and the cost is high because they charge for the area it takes up, even tho it has little weight. To save on shipping, I used to drive to the manafucture and load my truck and trailer, it was a 14 hour round trip. I have made 2 trips to Sturgis on my bike, it is a long trip!.
Great info thanks Gary
Very Clever way to test and Thank You, Have a great day..
thanks for the story, the tips an vid from you n your nephew. :)
4:10 1,500 ounces found split by 1/2 = 750 ounces kept. If silver is worth $17 per ounce x 750 ounces = $12,750. Is this correct? If so, great return for you time. How much time/expenses did it take to find it?
If I remember, I got about $9000. for the silver back then. All I had invested was a couple of days time and a tank of diesel. But I can still remember the excitement of finding it.
Nice work on that silver bar when will you release videos on getting gold out of the creek keep up the good work
I tried the icecube trick on a spoon and it also melted quickly. Doesn't seem this is a good method for checking for authenticity of silver.
Googled Diametic, Diametric, quick look, couldn't find.
I think the drag of the magnet is generating current. Google, Drop a magnet through copper pipe, even though magnet doesn't stick to the pipe, you can see the resistance or slowing down as it falls through. Another video shows dropping a magnet through a coil of wire with an LED attached, it briefly lights as Magnet falls through. Motors use copper(non magnetic), and a Magnet, who should have think it. Like to test,droppi g a magnet through a gold pipe to test. So for I have the Magnet. Intetesting.
What if a bar was a fake : plated with silver, would it also melt as fast??? Hmmm tia. Great vid thkx
I found the ice test the most inaccurate. 2oz silver vs bench top, no probs but when i did 6 1oz bars, they all melted at differant rates. How do you judge a puddle of water? They are all the same size. One melted fast, one melted slower than another one, but faster than the bench top, 3 melted even slower, but still faster than the bench top and in the end, the bench top had enough of a puddle to be no noticible differance. I could have speculated and taken an educated guess, but im sticking with the gravity test.
I know of a fun spot to check? You dig
Great info!
thanks for the info!
Gary, Bill in in town from England and he is looking for someone to take him out metal detecting for gold, his UA-cam channel is chill bill. He was asking for someone to take him out to do some metal detecting, I don't think you are to far from him. I think you guys will hit it off.
He is in the LA. area. That is about as far from me as you can get and still be in the state. It's like a 14 hour drive! Thanks for the heads up.
Two Toes thanks for trying, I had no idea you are that for from LA, I live in AZ and I'm closer to LA than you. Long time watcher first time commenting love watching your videos.
Does this work on silver coins also?
I have not tried, but I don't see why not. The results my not be as pronounced because coins are only 90% silver.
Interesting. thanks.
Awesome video's good to know 👍
A1 - thanks so much - all (but two 2 ozt rounds) my silver is fake & I'm out about 3000.00 USD
aye nice wan very helpful thank you regards Scorpio all the best HHNT
I'd drill a hole through it in the center and take the material and melt it and see if there's some sort of test, to confirm what % silver it is,..... that's how I would proof test it. he hole would reveal if their was say aluminum in the center?
What is the name of your nephew's channel?
He doesn't have a channel. He does not like the fact that some people are stealing, by selling fake silver bars. He made the video so people at least had a fighting chance.
Dads piranha here liked subed and hit th bell
ohh how cool
Now I know how to defrost meat much faster. So that's nice
Newspapers always exaggerate things.
p.s.ohh , and that must have been a real thrill to find that treasure ,for him , and you to of course.
I got the feeling that he thought someone had already found it. He was very happy when I showed him the silver. The best part for me is, every time I dig a target I remember that thrill, because you never know what's down there.
I have some that I think is suspect. Sucks.
To bad he didn't have a fake bar for comparison